Too much Too many, Enough!

Week 27^th – 29^th

End of the week, end of the month!

We said “bye” to Loli Gómez. She won’t be attending to class. That’s sad news but it’s also good news because the reason why she isn’t coming is that she’s got a job. Take care (farewell greeting, similar to “bye”) It was great having you with us! Good luck!

We started the week talking about plans and ambitions. Most of you have similar plans.

 

·        I plan to travel more.

·        I hope to pass the exams.

·        She’s looking forward to finding a good job soon.

·        She’s thinking of doing a course to become a free time counsellor.

·        He would like to spend more time in his hobbies.

And you continued the lines from a story I read. I paused and you went on (continued) the lines.

“An Indian Legend”

Do you remember?

·        Who was Black Eagle?

·        What was he planning to do?

·        Who did he expect to find?

·        What happened?

·        What did he decide to do?

The lake was named after him, how was the lake called?

Are you named after somebody in your family? I am. My mother’s name is Mª Ángeles. I was named after my mother.

We talked about diet and our body age.

According to scientific studies our real age and our body age are usually different. So, we went ahead and calculated our body ages. You are healthy people, well I was, when I was young. There’s no merit in it!

And your body ages are lower than your real ones!

In most of cases is because:

·        You don’t drink too much coffee.

·        You aren’t too fat, because you do enough exercise.

·        You drink little alcohol.

·        You have a good social life because you have a few friends and you often meet.

·        And you don’t work too many hours.

Study the chart below:

		Big Quantities	Small quantities
Singular / uncountable nouns	+	A lot (of) /plenty (of) /Lots (of)	(a) Little /(very)little
	-	much
	?	How much?
Plural / countable nouns	+	A lot (of) /plenty (of) /Lots (of)	(a) Few/ (very) few
	-	many
	?	How many?

“Much” and its compounds for singular; “many” and its compounds for plural.

·          “Too” before an adjective. He is too young to drive. He’s only 16.

·          “Too much” singular/uncountable nouns. There’s too much milk. Don’t buy more. It’ll go off!

·          “Too many” plural/countable nouns. There are too many chairs in this room. Take two to the other room, please.

·          “enough” before nouns. Are there enough photocopies for everybody?

               After adjectives. Are you hot enough? Shall I turn the heating up?

“very”, just an opinion. “too”, often with a negative connotation.

·        That boy is very tall.

·        That boy is too tall. If he continues growing up like that, he may have problems with his bones in the future.

And that was all!

/too much / too many / enough